Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a comprehensive new contract by Dairyland Power Cooperative to upgrade and replace its Energy Management System (EMS) as well as its Distribution Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
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Filed under: Distribution Management Systems
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that NW Natural Gas is leveraging its deployment of Itron advanced metering technology to include evaluation of its fixed network for collecting two-way time-synchronized interval data and on-demand reads from customers, as well as retrieve up to 40 days of interval data. Now operational, the two-way gas advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution is collecting reads from within a targeted population of NW Natural's 100G and 100G Datalogging Gas ERT(R) modules. more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure
GEUS won't be investing in federally mandated Smart Grid Technology, at least yet not yet, as proposals for a local program came in well over budget. more...
Filed under: T&D Automation
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EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC), a leading provider of clean and intelligent energy solutions, today announced that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved two separate contracts to provide demand response and distributed generation resources in Southern California. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks
Enspiria® Solutions, a leading provider of consulting and systems integration to the utility and government sectors announced today that the company continues to expand Smart Grid Program and Project Management capabilities with the addition of Scott Stein, PMP. more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced it has been awarded an $11.4-million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today that Alabama's largest distributor of natural gas, Alabama Gas Corporation (Alagasco), has signed a contract for deployment of Itron's mobile automated meter reading (AMR) to 500,000 gas meters. Over the next three years, Alagasco expects data gathering, reliability and accuracy to all improve with deployment of the system. more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management
Grid-Interop 2009 is an annual three-day gathering of thought leaders from around the world who will focus on the successful interconnection of transmission and distribution devices to enable the Smart Grid. more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure
Dominica Electricity Services Limited (DOMLEC), in collaboration with Elster, a leader in smart metering and smart grid systems and solutions, will modernize its grid operations by deploying the first full-scale EnergyAxis® smart grid system for the island. more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management
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AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution
(T&D) division and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) have successfully designed, built
and tested a single module of a 13 MVA (2000 A, 6.4 kV) single-phase, shielded-type inductive
superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) at the AREVA T&D Technology Centre in Stafford, UK. more...
Filed under: T&D Automation
Electric, gas, and water utilities have installed more than four million Sensus FlexNet(TM) communications systems endpoints--double the number installed last year at this time--and ten percent of President Barak Obama's recently announced goal of deploying 40 million smart meters over the next several years. more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure
Dominion Virginia Power crews have restored electric service to nearly 180,000 of the 335,000 customers affected by severe weather that arrived Wednesday. more...
Filed under: Mobile Workforce Management
The State of California is partnering with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in Sacramento's Smart Grid Stimulus federal grant program. more...
Filed under: T&D Automation
PG&E's $2.2 billion program to install 10 million SmartMeters on homes and businesses throughout California to better monitor energy consumption is off to a rough start. more...
Filed under: Metering, AMR & Data Management
People take electricity for granted -- until the lights fail to come on in the morning or there's no air conditioning on a scorching July afternoon. more...
Filed under: Distribution Management Systems
Looking to save on energy bills, about 900 Kansans have taken Westar Energy up on its offer of a free programmable thermostat since the program began a month ago. more...
Filed under: Demand Response & Home Area Networks
Allegheny Energy will not directly receive federal Smart Grid funds, according to the utility company's spokesman. more...
Filed under: T&D Automation
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, will work on a joint development project with the Nordic utility Fortum to design and install a large-scale smart grid in a new district of the city of Stockholm. more...
Filed under: Communication Infrastructure
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a $14.5 million agreement with Power and Water Corporation, the Northern Territory's multi-utility provider, to help design and implement an asset management system aimed at delivering electricity, water and sewerage services to its customers more efficiently. more...
Filed under: Geospatial Infrastructure Systems
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